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Dave Jones announces the shipment of Podping version 0.12.0 following several weeks of development. The discussion covers the migration of servers to Linode and the influx of automated Showrunner alerts regarding egress bandwidth and CPU spikes on the Podcast Index database.
The hosts review the Podping Monitor (PP Monitor) to check the status of the current node mesh. They identify and "shame" users running outdated software versions while noting a surprising version 0.12.1 fork appearing to run on TempleOS.
Dave Jones explains the decision to remove DHT from Podping due to stability issues with the Eero library. The system has transitioned to using five hardcoded bootstrap nodes located in Australia, Central, East, Europe, and West, which utilize permanent public keys for coordination.
